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The world’s most high-profile tech leaders and top entrepreneurs from around the world will be revealing their vision of tomorrow’s digital world as well as shedding light on emerging trends, disruption factors and best practices:

Disruption, what does it mean? With Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikimedia; Jay Carney, CCO of Amazon, and Oliver Samwer, CEO of Rocket Internet

Leading global players will welcome the sharpest startups to their labs, as well as top investors, laboratories and thousands of talents. Together, they will build tomorrow’s ecosystem that will shape the global economy.

Hospitality & Tourism - Accorhotels

Insurance - AXA

Financial Services - BNP Paribas

>Retail - Carrefour

Urban Transformations & Innovations - Cisco & Vinci Energies

Energy & Environment - Engie

Luxury - LVMH

Govtech - EY

Health Tech - Novartis

Telco & Connectivity - Orange

Sport, Gaming & Entertainment - PMU

Urban Mobility & Services - RATP Group

Open Transportation - SNCF

Media Lab - TF1

Automotive Tech - Valeo

Customer Experience - Webhelp

Tech4Good - TheNextWorld

The top 100 innovative companies will showcase their most advanced prototypes

VR/AR, 3D printing, robots, drones, self-driving car, etc. Everything that will change our lives tomorrow will be presented and open for individual experience, such as:

The best driverless engine like the Sea Bubble and the Google car will be showcased for the first time outside of the US

The most impressive robots including Ingenica Rius, Kristonic and Robotswim

The release of the new Sony Playstation Virtual Reality set and game – a Viva Tech exclusive European release

An overview of the latest artificial intelligence with Google Deepmind, Facebook, IBM Watson

The best startups from around the world will be showcasing the best of IoT, AI, blockchain, robots, drones, wearables and how they want to disrupt markets. 50 awards will honor and largely reward the best of the world’s innovative startups, with:

1,000,000€ ‘Tour de France Digital’ awarded by France Digital

Publicis90 rewarding the 90 most innovative startups

Maxi 100 challenge with a prize of 300,000€

5 Tech4Good awards to build up positive social impact

Dojo award, taking the best startup to China

Dozens of events will welcome the whole tech world right here in Paris for three days

Drone ballet artists, musicians, and plenty of surprises will unravel on the Viva Tech stages and floors. Manpower will connect best talents to thousands of recruiters, there will be two-hour floor tours by the Hub institute to share the best of Viva Technology Paris.

Throughout the duration Viva Tech, various events designed to give visitors a real Parisian experience will also be taking place. While the French President, François Hollande, will be inviting the top tech leaders to the Elysée Palace, the French Minister of the Economy,Emmanuel Macron will be welcoming global investors at the LouisVuitton Foundation. Meanwhile, McKinsey will be bringing together the world’s leading CEOs to accelerate the European digital transformation. And thousands of people will be invited to the French-American startup party on the banks of the River Seine!